#290: Menno Henselmans & Eric Helms, PhD - Diet Breaks, Calorie Cycling & Muscle Retention
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The Effects of a Nonlinear Diet on Fat Loss
When things got really difficult that you needed to have certain days that were extremely low with some high days as opposed to just all the days being relatively kind of low. There are points in a diet where the body is so resistant to fat loss that you have to deplete glycogen way past what you think is reasonable and create a large energy gap to effectively lose fat when all that remains is very quote unquote stubborn fat. If you take a a guy who's 180 pounds on stage like me and you eat 1200 calories for five days I guarantee you that's not best for muscle retention but if i am training five days per week you know full body spread apart nicely two high days and i take
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